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SETTING--Research project coordinated by the Alcohol Research Group, Edinburgh. SUBJECTS--205 Sex workers (102 male, 103 female) interviewed between July and December 1988. END POINT--Strategies to reduce risk of AIDS among people who buy and sell sexual services. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--Data were elicited by a standardised interview which related to over 300 variables. A fifth of the study group had used drugs intravenously, and one in 12 reported that they had been found to be seropositive on HIV testing. Roughly a quarter of the study group sometimes engaged in unprotected sex with clients for more money, and a similar proportion sometimes did not seek medical advice even if they had genital or anal symptoms. 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